Im Dickicht der Stadt (In the thicket of the city)

The Residenztheater and the Climate School of LMU Munich invite you on a transdisciplinary expedition into the urban wilderness of our city. As part of a long-term collaboration, members of the theatre ensemble and scientists from the LMU are jointly developing artistic formats that explore the relationship between humans and nature in a variety of ways.

The Wittelsbacher Wiese directly behind the Marstall is not only transformed into a stage, but also into a summer bar with drinks, music and birdsong, which is open for you before and after the performances.

The DICKICHT in the immediate vicinity of the Marstall is an undefined green space, habitat and ecosystem. A blind spot in urban planning. Through the DICKICHT, we are questioning the concept of what we have generally called «nature» or «city» up to now. What we have perceived as urban space and what as non-space. A spatial laboratory for discourse, performance and experiments on the threshold between art and science is being created here. In the uncontrolled wilderness, a place for a change of perspective, for encounters and new forms of communication is being created.

We want to understand the DICKICHT. We want to get to know the non-human counterparts that inhabit it. We let trees, woodlice, fungi and CO2 speak and tell their stories. We experiment, perceive and listen to what these new protagonists have to tell us - what will we answer them?

The DICKICHT sees itself as a place of encounter and exchange. It is a performance, discourse space and bar. It is inside and outside. Intimate and public. It poses the question of togetherness. It is a place of co-habitation and spatiality.

The Residenztheater and the Climate School at LMU Munich invite you on a transdisciplinary expedition into the urban wilderness of our city. In the third part of the series, we will embark on a gastrosophical journey into the thicket and want to cook and savour our environment together with the audience.